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Doctor Arturo Alcaraz is a volcanologist specializing in geothermal energy development. In 1967, Arturo Alcaraz and team powered an electric light bulb using steam-powered electricity. Power coming from a Volcano near the town of Tiwi. This was the first geothermal power generated in the Philippines.
Almeda designed a food-processing machine. In 1954, Benjamin Almeda founded the Almeda Cottage Industry (now the Almedah Food Machineries Corporation) which manufactured his basic food processing inventions including his rice grinder, meat grinder and coconut grater.
producing alternative fuels. Julian Banzon experimented with the production of ethyl esters fuels from sugarcane and coconut, and invented a means of extracting residual coconut oil by a chemical process rather than a physical process. BS in Chemistry from the University of the Philippines - 1930 and Ph.D. in Biophysical Chemistry from Iowa State University - 1940.
Barba invented practical flower induction treatments. Filipino scientist, Ramon Barba is best known for his advancements in mango farming research and tropical tree physiology. Ramon Barba invented techniques to promote crop flowering using a potassium nitrate spray. The Philippines is a leading exporter of mangoes and mango products. B.S. Agronomy (Fruits) University of the Philippines 1958 and M. Sci. Horticulture, University of Georgia - 1962
innovations in drug treatments against diseases caused by mosquitoes and agricultural soil. Doctor Benjamin Cabrera has written more than a hundred scientific publications on medical parasitology and public health - in particle research on filariasis. 1945 - M.D. at the University of the Philippines and 1950 -M.P.H.in Medical Parasitology and Public Health at Tulane University
laboratory in the Philippines. Doctor Paulo Campos is a specialist in nuclear medicine and the award winning writer of over seventy-five scientific papers including: Observation of Some Parameter of Insulin Action; Cr-51 Tagged Red Cell Studies; and The Genetic Factor in Endemic Goiter Magdalena Cantoria. Magdalena Cantoria is a noted Filipino botanist who is known for her
8. Josefino Comiso. Filipino Physicist Josefino Comiso has been warning the world about global warming.
Josefino Comiso is a Filipino physicist working at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center studing global warming in the Arctic. Josefino Comiso was the first person to discover a recurring polynya in the Cosmonaut Sea, south of the Indian Ocean. A polynya is a semipermanent area of open water in sea ice.
9. Lourdes Cruz. Doctor Lourdes Cruz has made scientific contributions to the
biochemistry field of conotoxins, in particular the toxins of the venom of the marine snail Conus geographus. Lourdes Cruz documented the biochemical characterization of the homologous highly toxic monomeric peptides with internal disulfide bonds including: Conotoxin GI, Conotoxin GIA and Conotoxin GII. Lourdes Cruz has helped develop conotoxins for the purpose biochemical probes for examining the activities of the human brain. Lourdes Cruz - Awards: NAST Outstanding Young Scientist Award 1981, NRCP Achievement Award in Chemistry 1982, and Outstanding Women in the Nation's Service Award (Biochemistry) 1986. B.S. Chemistry, University of the Philippines, 1962, M.S. Biochemistry, University of Iowa, 1966 and Ph.D. Biochemistry, University of Iowa, 1968
discoveries during their lifetime. Pierre discovered the process to pasteurize milk and as a husband and wife team they won the Nobel Prize in 1903 for their body of work on radiation.
Archimedes - a Greek
mathematician, scholar, scientist, engineer, and astronomer. He is known as one of the great minds of the ancient ages. He is also known for being the first to come up with a remarkably accurate measurement for the value of Pi.
Aaron James Martinez Edwin Hubble. Edwin Powell Hubble was an American
scientist who had a particular interest in astronomy and space. His greatest contribution to theworld of science was that he discovered that there are other galaxies that exist in as well as the Milky Way. In addition to this, Hubble also suggested the spectrum of light that exists between galaxies can distinguish the distance between a particular galaxy and our planet. Although he worked hard to establish astronomy as a branch of physics in order to allow astronomers to receive the Nobel Prize, he never succeeded during his lifetime. However - after he passed away in 1953, the Nobel Prize Committee reconsidered these rules and included astronomy in the physics sector for potential Nobel Award winning scientists.
Alexander Fleming.
Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish biologist who made the discovery of the very first antibiotic - penicillin. He received a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine award for his work alongside his fellow scientists Howard Florey and Sir Ernst Boris Chain who aided him in this discovery.